Lets take your phone calls. Al in dayton, ohio. Do you support or oppose a preemptive strike on north korea . Aller i oppose a strike i have been wanting to call in for a few weeks. I am very frightened of what we voted into the white house. Anybody who says he can shoot somebody on fifth avenue and people will still vote for him, scares me. I was a vietnam veteran, i am a foreignborn. I feel like, anybody who shuts off the media and the public from knowledge starts frightening me. I do not know what this guys up to but i knew we would be in a war within four months of his election. I felt it in my bones. I do not know if he plays video games with his son or what he thinks, but i would love to see his boys. And mike pences son get the flak jackets ready and get on the front line in seoul. This is crazy, absolutely insane. I am thinking about this, six or eight people in this world that have the destiny of the rest of us. It is kind of frightening. I hope everybody gets a level head and
The president and ceo of Americas Promise Alliance is here for a conversation this morning about the social and educational issues affecting our nation youth. Thank you for being here. Remind our viewers what Americas Promise Alliance is and what its mission is. Guest if the nationss Largest Network of organizations, communities and individuals devoted to improving the lives of young people. We have over 400 national organizations, 200 communities and thousands of leaders across the country. All of whom are focused on creating conditions of success for all young people in america. Host it is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year . Guest this month. Cspan covered walltowall the original event, the president s summit for americas future in philadelphia in 1997. Host all living president s. Guest and that he reagan representing her husband came to philadelphia to call the country to attention and action on behalf of young people. Host how and why was this organization founded . Guest
interested to learn a little bit more about his background in new jersey and, um, how he got to be who he is. and we re also going to read dan brown s inferno, which i think is the ultimate summer beach book. i ve read the other dan brown books, and i think miles will enjoy this one. he has a real knack for ending his chapters with cliffhangers that make you turn the page. and so i think miles will end joy that a lot, and i think enjoy that a lot, and i think we ll have lots to talk about. so should be a fun summer of reading. let us know what you re reading this summer. tweet us @booktv, post it on our facebook page or send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. the famous passage in one of william faulkner s novels, he said for every southern boy 14 years old or older, it s still 1:00 in the afternoon on july 3rd, 1863. picket s charge hasn t happened yet. it s all on the line. and they can, in their imagination, say this time, maybe this time victory, independence. so
average of the chicago tribune fest continues as douglas foster who spoke after mandela looked at post-apartheid south africa. and marvin kalb present his book the road to war. live coverage of the 2013 printers role that fast includes a conversation between edward and john glassy. that is our live from the printer s row that fast in chicago. our first panel of the day with walter jacobson and keith koenenman. i had no idea, never thought about doing it and never tried to do on it. when i retired five years ago for the first time the michael jordan of local television. in my business retirement is often compulsory. the latest as the air gets grayer, the less management wants you to be part of the team. the first time i retired i was ready to retire, 45 years in the business and i just went off thinking about myself, i had been under so many years of such severe deadlines that i never had a chance to think about what i was doing to myself and what i did for others to n